Paraguay, 1950 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a military and dissident coup conspiracy in Paraguay on 30 July 1950, during the early presidency of Federico Chaves of the Colorado Party's moderate democratico wing, who had come to power in 1949 amid the chronic instability that followed the 1947 civil war. Chaves imposed a state of siege within three weeks of taking office and used his emergency powers to attack the supporters of the ousted president Juan Natalicio Gonzalez and of former president Felipe Molas Lopez, as the fractured Colorado Party and disaffected army officers plotted against one another in a period of near-continuous conspiracy. No discrete documentation of a distinct plot precisely on 30 July 1950 appears in accessible English sources, but it fits the pattern of guionista and molista factional plotting against the new Chaves government.
The instability of these years ended only with Alfredo Stroessner's seizure of power in 1954, which began a 35-year dictatorship.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
15007301950
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Federico Chaves suppressed factional plotting and governed until Stroessner overthrew him in 1954.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Chicago Daily Tribune
New York Times
Washington Post
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →